Author: Ward, Lock and Company, ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Tina Brown
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445679884
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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Secret Hastings explores the lesser-known history of the East Sussex town of Hastings through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1574

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Author: Charles Heywood SOUTHALL
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Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Alan Spree
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445691221
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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A fascinating portrait of Hastings & St Leonards presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.

Author: David Strittmatter
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303104469X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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This book explores commemoration practices and preservation efforts in modern Britain, focusing on the years from the end of the First World War until the mid-1960s. The changes wrought by war led Britain to reconsider major historical episodes that made up its national narrative. Part of this process was a reassessment of heritage sites, because such places carry socio-political meaning as do the memorials that mark them. This book engages the four-way intersection of commemoration, preservation, tourism, and urban planning at some of the most notable historic locations in England. The various actors in this process—from the national government and regional councils to private organizations and interested individuals—did nothing less than engineer British national memory. The author presents case studies of six famous British places, namely battlefields (Hastings and Bosworth), political sites (Runnymede and Peterloo), and world’s fairgrounds (the Crystal Palace and Great White City). In all three genres of heritage sites, one location developed through commemorations and tourism, while the other ‘anti-sites’ simultaneously faltered as they were neither memorialized nor visited by the masses. Ultimately, the book concludes that the modern social and political environment resulted in the revival, creation, or erasure of heritage sites in the service of promoting British national identity. A valuable read for British historians as well as scholars of memory, public history, and cultural studies, the book argues that heritage emerged as a discursive arena in which British identity was renegotiated through times of transitions, both into a democratic age and an era of geopolitical decline.

Author: Stuart Hylton
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147381572X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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In June 1940, Britain's front line against the German armies was the coast of Kent and Sussex. Across the Channel, Hitler's forces gathered, preparing for invasion, as the Home Forces struggled desperately to recover from the disaster and miracle of Dunkirk. Occupation of these islands was nearer than for almost nine hundred years. Kent and Sussex 1940, tells the story of the communities that found themselves in the front line, placing their experience within the context of huge historic events.

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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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